TERMS OF USE

This page sets out the terms of use on which you may make use of our website accessed through www.laird-assessors.com (“our site”) whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use please refrain from using our site.

INFORMATION ABOUT US

Our site is operated by Laird Assessors Limited. We are a limited liability company registered in England under Registered Number 4004050. Our contact address is available through our site. We do not accept service of court proceedings or documents by e-mail.

ACCESSING OUR SITE

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time we may restrict access to some parts of our site or our entire site.

If you choose or you are provided with a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures you must treat such information as confidential and are responsible for keeping it so and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password whether chosen by you or allocated by us at any time if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

When using our site you must at all times comply with the provisions of these terms of use.

YOUR PRIVACY

Your privacy and the use of personal information is of vital importance to us. Please ensure you read and understand our Privacy Policy which sets out Lairds policy for the collection and use of personal information.

PROHIBITED USES

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:

1. In any way that breaches any applicable law or regulation.

2. In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.

3. For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm others in any way.

4. To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with these terms of use.

5. To transmit or procure the sending of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).

6. To transmit knowingly any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of these terms of use or to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of our site, any equipment or network on which our site is stored, any software used in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off copies and download extracts of any page from our site for your personal reference only. Accordingly, you must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining our permission to do so.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status and that of any other identified contributors as the authors of our site or of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED

Commentary and other materials posted on our site, on any third party website which has a link to or from our site or emailed to you (e.g. updates or newsletters) are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY

We aim to update our site regularly and may change the content at any time. If the need arises we may suspend access to our site or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update such material.

OUR LIABILITY

Nothing contained on or within our site shall be taken to be or constitute expert or legal advice. To that extent all liabilities, losses and damages of whatsoever nature are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

INTERACTIVE SERVICES

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:

1. The events page on our site.

2. Laird Online Tracking.

3. Updates and newsletters regarding any of our practice areas.

Where we do provide interactive services we will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site and we expressly exclude our liability to the fullest extent permitted by law for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards.

The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online.

TRANSACTIONS CONCLUDED THROUGH OUR SITE

Contracts for the supply of services formed through our site or as a result of visits made by you are governed by our terms and conditions of supply. We endeavour to operate a paperless office policy so far as is possible and therefore delivery of all our reports is on a digital basis to the email address provided to us by our client. It is therefore the responsibility of the client to ensure that the email address provided is correct and capable of receiving our digital report. In exceptional circumstances and in our absolute discretion we may deliver a paper copy of the report to the postal address provided by the client. Those conditions provide that we do not offer refunds or allow cancellations once an order has been made save in exceptional circumstances and then only in our absolute discretion.

VIRUSES HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other malware or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other malware or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it or on any website linked to it.

LINKING TO OUR SITE

You may link to our home page provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you. Our site must not be framed on any other site nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with these terms of use.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above please address your request to info@laird-assessors.com

LINKS FROM OUR SITE

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

Failure to comply with these terms of use constitutes a material breach of the term upon which you are permitted to use our site and may, at our sole discretion, result in withdrawal of your right to use our site, you being issued with a warning, legal proceedings being taken against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach and/or disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these terms of use. The responses described in these terms are not limited and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use are governed by English law.

VARIATIONS

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

CLIENT COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE

At all times we aim to provide our clients with a professional service of the highest calibre.

Should any problem arise our approach is to be constructive: we will take every complaint seriously, we will investigate it promptly and thoroughly and will take remedial action as appropriate.

If you wish to make a complaint, you can do so, in writing, by telephone or by e-mail at complaints@laird-assessors.com